Looks like Sri Lanka managed to avoid a whitewash in a convincing manner. NZ were clearly overdependent on Ravindra and Chapman in the batting department while their bowling department performed really well overall.
Fernando, Theekshana and Malinga bowled well in this match, but Theekshana was their best bowler in this series in my opinion.
Sri Lanka have consolation win in this last ODI of the series as they lost T20I series with the score of 2–1 and then another lost in ODI series with the same score their inconsistency and poor batting giving them problems now they are not in Champions Trophy2025, but this was good practice for the New Zealand.
While Sri Lanka bat first their batting in this match was much better as their top order give good performance which helps them for having good target of 290 for 8 Matt Henry doing good job as he completes his 150 wickets in ODI.
In reply, we have New Zealand in trouble from start all batsmen gone cheaply just Mark Chapman were able to have 81 runs, but these were not enough with all gone on 150 runs, and they lost match by 140 runs.